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Anyone ever use it on a gun stock? If so, what were the results? I use it on some antique farmhouse furniture that we have and is does a nice job of conditioning the wood. Was thinking about rubbing down my Rizzini stock.
What say you guys?
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For new guns with synthetic finishes it is just fine.
Put a LITTLE on the pad and use sparingly.
I also use Lemon Pledge on newish guns
that see lots of handling
Mike
Last edited by skeettx; 05/26/14 07:15 PM.
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Worthless on a gun other than for a few minutes shine.
JR
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Could you please elaborate John? I'm sure the humidity is much higher in Mississippi than here in the desert. Here are the Amazon reviews http://www.amazon.com/Formbys-300115-Lemon-Treatment-16-Ounce/product-reviews/B0015R7VY0I use Old English Lemon Oil routinely on our oak antiques, and Pledge Orange Oil for 'washed out' wood. I like Howard Feed-N-Wax (which has Orange Oil) to restore and protect gunstocks, but it will slightly darken the finish. Maybe I'm fooling myself, but the wood sure looks better, and for a long time.
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Formbys Lemon Oil is paraffin oil w/some solvents/thinners and (lemon) perfume in it.
Paraffin oil is refined kerosene.
Can't hurt it too bad,,I guess.
It'll certainly remove grime from the surface.
Most of the spray dusting stuff like Pledge is silicone.
That's why the resulting very slippery surface on plastics and hard wood finished surfaces. Silicone onto unfinished wood is a nightmare for most any wood finish to be applied over it.
Makes things look shiny though.
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Kreighoff uses walnut oil on their oil finished stocks. They must have an idea of what they are doing. I find walnut oil in health food stores.
bill
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Lemon grass oil is a good cleaner for dirty gun stocks. It isn't a finish on it's own, per say, but, more of a maintenance/cleaner.
Ditto what Kutter said about the "Pledge". Yuk.
Best,
Ted
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Could you please elaborate John? I'm sure the humidity is much higher in Mississippi than here in the desert. Here are the Amazon reviews http://www.amazon.com/Formbys-300115-Lemon-Treatment-16-Ounce/product-reviews/B0015R7VY0I use Old English Lemon Oil routinely on our oak antiques, and Pledge Orange Oil for 'washed out' wood. I like Howard Feed-N-Wax (which has Orange Oil) to restore and protect gunstocks, but it will slightly darken the finish. Maybe I'm fooling myself, but the wood sure looks better, and for a long time. Furniture inside a house is not subjected to the elements like a gunstock. Sure, lemon oil will bring out the character and beauty of a piece of dry furniture that is made of some nice wood to begin with that has a decent finish on it. But that is all it does. Furniture is not handled like a gunstock either. Any oil will make a gunstock shine for a few minutes, but does nothing else. Actually, Clenzoil is touted for use on wood, but it does the same thing. This idea of "feeding" wood is nonsense. The best thing to put on a dried out gunstock, other than a refinish, is some form of boiled linseed oil, or a more sophisticated form of it with other polymers added, which will cure and harden in time and protect the wood from moisture and wear. JR
Last edited by John Roberts; 05/26/14 08:24 PM.
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Reminds me of once upon a time I had a gun with a oil finish in from Cabelas for inspection. I was giving it a thorough going over in my shop and had a 200 watt bulb in my swing arm lamp. Well, the light put out a lot of heat and I had to run into the house for a while. Forgot to turn the light out and when I came back it had heated the wood enough that it was bubbling lemon oil everywhere. Wiped it off, removed the stock from the action and left it under the light. For days it continually seeped that damned lemon oil and I finally gave up and returned the gun. I now am a firm believer you can ruin a stock with that stuff. I don't think a stock soaked with lemon oil or something similar could ever be refinished or repaired.
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Joe,
Did you tell them that you had fried the stock for a while before you sent it back?, just curious
franc
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